What we know about smells in software test code

Vahid Garousi; Baris Kucuk; Michael Felderer

doi:10.1109/MS.2018.2875843

What we know about smells in software test code

Vahid Garousi, Baris Kucuk, Michael Felderer

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Abstract

Test smells are poorly designed tests and negatively affect the quality of test suites and production code. We present the largest catalog of test smells, along with a summary of guidelines, techniques, and tools used to deal with test smells.

Original language	English
Article number	8501942
Pages (from-to)	61-73
Number of pages	13
Journal	IEEE Software
Volume	36
Issue number	3
Early online date	22 Oct 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2018.2875843
Publication status	Published - 01 Jun 2019
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

multivocal literature review
Software testing
systematic literature review
test anti-patterns
test automation
test scripts
test smells

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software

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